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TIL that John Travolta has Functional Airport With 2 Runways At His House

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v1MdK TIL that in 1980, with less than 5 seconds on the clock and a tied score, college basketball player Les Henson made a full-court field goal, setting a record of 89 feet, 3 inches
69wJ TIL that the deepest note mankind has ever detected is a B♭ that is 57 octaves below middle C. The sound is made by inflating plasma bubbles in the center of the Perseus Cluster.
VMDAQ TIL the US Justice Department reached a settlement with BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But the settlement turned out to be tax-deductible, meaning that BP could write off $13+ billion of the penalty.
jaRa TIL that Texas has its own dialect of German
0w5EN TIL IKEA has complete ownership over their supply chain of products, even growing theor own wood (forest ownership), and uses approximately 1 percent of all lumber usage globally.